A fierce wind howled in from the broken stone wall, swirling up charred iron filings everywhere.
Inside the main hall, in a deathly silence, only the heavy, drum-like breathing of the Fourth Raikage A heard.
Senju Kenya and deliberately pulled his hands out of the pockets of his floral shorts.
He wore flip-flops, twisted his neck, and his bones emitted a series of chilling, rapid-fire cracking sounds.
Those deep, dark eyes, peering through brown sunglasses, landed mockingly on Raikage's purplish right hand and Ōnoki's almost broken lower back.
"They constantly spout ancestral virtues and unyielding dignity."
Kenya exhaled a thick cloud of bluish-white smoke, his tone filled with undisguised mockery:
"In this tiny room, you're banging on the table and cursing like a wronged woman, and that's considered having backbone?"
Kenya chuckled and shoved the white jade pipe back into the deep pocket of his floral shorts.
"In the past few hundred years, hasn't the Shinobi World ultimately come down to who has the strongest fist?"
"Since you think I'm abusing my power, and that the Black Iron Wood and billions of dollars I possess are not civilized enough..."
Kenya turned around and pointed to the majestic snow-capped mountain fortress standing in the heart of the blizzard outside the main hall:
"Old man Mifune, your Land of Iron prides itself on being the holy land of samurai spirit, the most revered place in the entire Shinobi World."
"Open up your ultimate dueling arena to me!"
"Whatever old grudges or unresolved issues, let's settle them today in front of the entire Shinobi World, one punch and one kick at a time!"
Upon hearing this...
Admiral Mifune, who was standing in the corner covered in cold sweat, finally let out a long sigh of relief.
If the standoff continues in the council hall, the entire ancient castle fortress could be overturned at any moment by these few gods and demons.
If we move to an open training ground and determine the winner according to the ancient dueling etiquette of the Land of Iron, at least the castle can be saved from collapsing.
"This old man... obeys!"
Mifune bowed deeply, his right hand resting on his sword, his voice filled with utmost solemnity:
"Activate the highest-level ' Black Ice Dragon-Slaying Platform '! Citywide alert! The Five Kage are moving in!!"
After half an incense stick's time.
At the heart of the Land of Iron fortress, behind the mountain, three towering snow-capped peaks rise majestically, right in the center of the wind gap.
A super open-air arena covering an area of several thousand square meters, carved out of the polar ice that has stood for millions of years.
It was clearly displayed before everyone's eyes!
The entire arena floor was formed by pouring and compacting a mixture of polar ice hundreds of feet deep and black iron slag.
Its surface is as smooth as a mirror, and its hardness is even enough to withstand the frenzied bombardment of a heavy battering ram!
At this very moment.
The arena is surrounded by a ring of sheer cliffs tens of meters high.
Thirty thousand elite warriors from the Land of Iron, clad in heavy, cold-weather armor and wielding Chakra samurai swords, stood in a formidable array, like a forest of iron!
The cold wind howled, and heavy snowflakes swirled wildly across the sky.
Chōjūrō stood guard beside Mei Terumi, his beautiful eyes shimmering as he lazily sipped his steaming hot tea.
Temari and Kankuro pushed Gaara expression remained calm, to stand on the Sunagakure seat.
On the other side.
Sweating profusely, Xi forcefully pierced the swollen, purplish right wrist of the Fourth Raikage A. Darui, holding a sword in one hand, his face ashen.
Kurotsuchi and Akatsuchi frantically used three high-strength steel plates and bandages to firmly fix Ōnoki's dislocated and broken lower back. Ōnoki gritted his teeth and barely managed to levitate half a meter off the ground with the help of the Ultra-Light-Weight Rock Technique.
A violent blizzard swept through.
However, the eyes of tens of thousands of ninjas and samurai were all fixed on the figure who strolled into the center of the arena!
"Tap, tap, tap."
The Senju Kenya's thick, powerful arms, and his brightly colored shorts fluttered in the swirling snow.
His faded flip-flops clattered softly on the hard, smooth icy ground.
Despite the biting cold of minus thirty degrees Celsius, his body radiated a scalding heat that glowed with an ethereal, dark gold light.
Even the sweat rolling on his chest couldn't freeze, but instead, billowing white steam rose from beneath his feet!
Kenya casually pulled a freshly opened rice cracker from his pocket, tossed it into his mouth, and chewed it with a crunching sound.
He stopped in the very center of the training ground, his hands in the pockets of his floral shorts.
Through the lenses of his brown-tinted sunglasses, his gaze casually swept over the opposing forces of the Land of Lightning and the Land of Earth, who were standing ready for battle.
" Old Man Rai, Old Man Ōnoki."
Kenya swallowed the crumbs of senbei in his mouth, a nonchalant, mocking smile playing on his lips:
"I know you're all feeling resentful, worried that if word gets out that one of you has a broken wrist and the other has a herniated disc, people will say I'm bullying the old, weak, and disabled."
Kenya slowly pulled a large hand out of his pocket.
With his five fingers spread wide, he then arrogantly and without any restraint slashed across the faces of Raikage A, Ōnoki, and even Darui, Shi, Kurotsuchi, and Akatsuchi!
"I've always been a civilized person who values efficiency, and I don't want to hold memorial services for each of you in this snowy weather."
Kenya moved his right wrist, and his bones erupted with a violent roar like thunder from the heavens:
"You two old cripples, plus that bunch of so-called Kage Level elite guards behind you!"
"One by one, don't all line up to die and waste my time going back to eat barbecue!"
Kenya's eyes narrowed, and an overwhelming, domineering, and unparalleled ancient pressure erupted like a mountain collapsing and a tsunami crashing down:
"Everyone stand up and get down here at once!!"
He single-handedly challenged the combined might of the four superpowers!
The entire snow-capped mountain training ground, where the wind howled, was completely ignited in that instant!